RE: [Exim] What do you want in a book?

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Alan Thew
CC: Philip Hazel, John Horne, exim-users
Old-Topics: RE: [Exim] What do you want in a book?
Subject: RE: [Exim] What do you want in a book?
Perhaps once the book text is set to print, you could maintain a
CHANGES file much like you do now between electronic documentation
updates, but this would include all changes that have occured since the
book..

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Alan Thew wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:24 , Philip Hazel <ph10@???> said:
>
> >On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, John Horne wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >> 2) With Exim's continuous development will the book become dated too
> >> quickly? I'm not sure how this is dealt with with the Sendmail book (Edition
> >> 3 I think), but after a year or so will there be much more in Exim than the
> >> book states? Or will it just be the internals that is now changing (to avoid
> >> the creeping featurism)?
> >
> >This is, and will be a problem. If a book is published, it will be
> >out-of-date before it hits the shops.
>
> This will always be a problem (that's why the spec doc exists?), surely
> much of the book is not for people who have read this list daily for
> some time but for people who need to see the error of their ways :-)
> and for those of us who might want to see a way of doing things
> differently (but then there's the FAQ etc...)
> >
> >-- 
> >Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> >ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

> >
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